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Financial Services Company Extends its Relationship with ePlus to Harness the Power of Public Cloud

Leverages ePlus’ AWS expertise for cloud-based storage provisioning to enhance agility, mitigate risk, and maintain consistency to standards

The customer’s enterprise storage team was using manual tasks for provisioning storage buckets, and they wanted to optimize the process.
The organization sought to protect data and maintain consistency to standards using a cloud formation template—as well as a way to audit and govern the compliance of these standards.
The customer wanted to provide its clients with a mechanism to obtain the public resources they need in a controlled manner with access rights management, alerting, and orchestrated rules for corrective actions.

Long-standing relationship at the account with the customer’s on-premise storage infrastructure
Extended trusted advisor status to assist with moving storage to the cloud
Knowledge and familiarity with the customer’s IT footprint, business processes, corporate culture, and organizational structure
Consulting expertise and team of cloud engineers with AWS processes as well as automation and orchestration skillset and methodologies to both design and deliver the solution
Understanding of security models and Identity and Access Management roles

ePlus Cloud Services – Automation and Orchestration

Created scripts to automate the provisioning of standard storage buckets, integrating the customer’s internal data sets and rules
Leveraged AWS rules engine and open source scripts to define policies and enable the customer’s cloud infrastructure
Developed orchestration scripts that ensured real-time compliance to security policies, including encryption, data protection, access requirements, and tag policies

Ability to mitigate risk and maintain consistency to standards across cloud storage pools
Automated provisioning alleviates pressure on the customer’s storage team, enhancing staff efficiency and allowing them to focus on more strategic tasks
Enhanced agility by leveraging cloud-based storage provisioning
Improved compliance through automated alerting, corrective actions, and a full audit trail